Coming Up This Week The Pope is visiting DRC and South Sudan this week. His Anglican counterpart, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will join him in South Sudan.Commodity PricesAluminum: $2,639/tonAntimo …

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Ukraine Russia responded to Western commitments to send Ukraine battle tanks by launching 55 missile strikes into Ukraine, killing at least 11 people (Ukrainian forces shot down 47 of the missiles).T …

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Ukraine Germany confirmed it plans to send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.The U.S. has pledged 31 M1 Abrams tanks atop the 14 Challengers the UK committed, and other countries may yet add more tanks t …

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Ukraine After much deliberation and waiting for the other to make a move, both the U.S. and Germany agreed to transfer tanks to Ukraine. The U.S. will send up to 50 M1 Abrams and Germany will send it …

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Ukraine Poland said it would formally ask Germany for permission to send Ukraine Leopard 2 tanks, but - for the first time - expressed willingness to go around Germany if refused permission AND if ot …

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Ukraine Germany still hasn't agreed to send Ukraine Leopard 2 tanks, but its foreign minister said she was ready to approve Poland's request to send Polish Leopards to Ukraine (Germany has to authori …

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